Space Rocket History #408 – Skylab – Skylab 2 – Days 2-7 & 10th Anniversary Celebration
Space Rocket History Podcast
Michael Annis
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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NASA’s first priority was to get Skylab back into solar inertial attitude. This was both the coolest attitude and would point the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) solar arrays directly at the sun. Thus the crew would have the most electrical … Continue reading
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| 0:19.9 | We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not |
| 0:24.9 | because they are easy but because they are hard in godspeed John Glenn Roger zero |
| 0:31.4 | and I feel fine okay I'm out how does it feel for the United States to be the new record holder? |
| 0:40.1 | At last, huh? |
| 0:41.8 | In that baby lights, there's no doubt about it. |
| 0:44.6 | Lift-off. We have a lift-off. 32 minutes past the hour. |
| 0:49.2 | Lift-off on Apollo 11. |
| 0:51.8 | flipping Tanguality Base here. |
| 0:54.7 | The Eagle has landed. |
| 0:56.6 | That's one small step for man. |
| 1:00.2 | One giant leap for manned. |
| 1:08.9 | Hello and welcome. This is Michael Annis, and you're listening to episode number 408 of the |
| 1:16.1 | Space Rocket History podcast. And now, Skylab 2. Mission Days 2 through 7. |
| 1:26.4 | Now that Skylab has been rescued, I want to cover some of the things the crew was doing |
| 1:33.7 | during the first days before they freed the solar wing on June 7th of 1973. |
| 1:42.7 | We will start the day after they got the parasol installed, which would be |
| 1:48.8 | mission day two. Since the station was beginning to cool now, NASA and the crew decided to go |
| 1:57.5 | ahead and begin the original flight plant. |
| 2:04.0 | It was pretty hot work at the beginning, but the astronauts did have the multiple docking adapter, or MDA, |
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